I got a call from Dick Smith out of the blue just before christmas. “Dan, I got your number from Andrew Denton, I want to make an ad” Why not? He’s an Australian legend. Sounds like fun. So I wrote the funniest script I thought I could muster on our tiny $10k budget. Then convinced [...]

If you’re in LA November 4th, swing along to the LA Comedy Festival!! Y2Gay will be screening in the Shorts Programme 10 at 4pm at Los Feliz 3 Cinemas 1822 N. Vermont Ave.   (Any Aussie comedians in the vicinity of the screening, if you could represent our little film that’d be great…. if you could do [...]

The poor parrot, lately he’s been out of his cage causing a racket. Alan Jones has been a powerful force in Australian media for a very long time. It’s been said that his influence can make or break Prime Ministers. However lately he seems to be losing that golden touch. Traditional media in all forms is becoming flatter, and [...]

  BOOK TICKETS HERE I’ve decided to cobble together some standup some stories and some videos for my first ever solo show. If you’re a good friend of mine, you are certainly not obliged to come, it’s pretty much the same old dribble you’ve seen for the last few years, compacted in to 50 minutes. [...]

2 politicians, 1 former sports star, 1 reality TV runner up, and 6 young people old people have no idea exist make up the top ten influential Australians on social media according to influence index Kred. This top ten list shows how the digital devide between old and young exists and is growing. The networks that [...]

In october 2011, I went to Afghanistan on a trip with Forces Entertainment to entertain Aussie tropps in theatre. It was one of the most amazing trips I’ve ever done. The following is a series of web videos I initially made for Fairfax Media. You can read about my trip here on The Punch PART [...]

Read my rant without irony about the death of television whilst steadily being employed by television in one of Australia’s best television and film industry verticals, Encore Magazine… READ IT HERE

Ed Milibot   Ed Miliband went into high PR gear in this interview with ITV’s Damon Green and gave the same answer six times in two minutes to multiple questions… which begs the question. What is Ed Miliband Hiding? Is he a robot? The original video has now gone viral in political and news circles [...]

This month I had the privilege to share desk at The Steaming Toad, here is the first of the eps we filmed.

Hungry Beast S3 is over and has been put to bed. Weather we are going again is not a questions I can answer. All we know is that we’re done for now. One of the great experiences of this show in the third season is the ability to push through and make some really great [...]